D61+ LIVE

D61+ LIVE is Data61’s annual showcase of the latest Data61 and CSIRO innovations and technologies. The event brings together our D61+ network, including government, industry, business, universities, researchers and students.

Dr Genevieve Bell: The last 200 years has all just been about technology.

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Dr Stephan Hajkowicz: So, we’re working in the space of trying to work out where this technology goes and what it might mean to us.

[Images move through of people talking together at the event and Professor Michelle Simmons talking to the camera and text appears: Professor Michelle Simmons, Director, Centre for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology, School of Physics, University of NSW]

Professor Michelle Simmons: We’re going to try and design a computer that works where the functional element is a single atom.

Professor Bob Williamson: The whole premise of this event is to connect with all of the partners that we work with.

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Female 2: Connecting Australian research and the businesses is essential to Australia’s knowledge future.

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Male 1: Bridging the gap between industry and the university space is absolutely critical for innovation.

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Male 2: PaidRight is the first project that we’re doing with Data 61. It’s all about how do we make sure Australian workers are paid correctly.

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Female 3: Determinant is a machine learning technology that allows you to find the most valuable pieces of missing data from a very large data set.

[Images move through of Larry Marshall talking to the camera, the audience listening to Larry Marshall and Larry Marshall talking to the camera and text appears: Larry Marshall, CEO, CSIRO]

Larry Marshall: Data 61 has an amazing group of people with the ability to turn that raw material, that commodity of data, into insight that helps steer business, Government and society through challenges that we’re going to have to navigate over the next ten to 15 years.

[Images move through of the audience, Larry Marshall talking, the diagnostic tool in use, the nurse operating the tool, a male’s eyes, a Specialist looking at a computer, the Specialist’s face and the diagnostic image of the retina]

Just last year, we invented a new diagnostic tool that enables health workers in rural Australia to take high definition pictures of people’s eyes and retinas, beam them to city Doctors and Specialists who can immediately diagnose a condition in a patient and thereby connect thousands of rural people to high quality medical care.

[Images move through of a robotically controlled vehicle spinning on the floor, a male operating it and Chris Kutarna talking to the camera and text appears: Chris Kutarna, Fellow, Oxford Martin School]

Adrian Turner: So, we need to think about the lateral opportunities for our existing industries and where competition is going to come from.

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We think that the intersection of those science domains and the application of the technology is what’s going to drive the creation of the new industries over the next 15 to 20 years.

[Images move through of people eating and talking at the event and then the image changes to show Professor Bob Williamson talking to the camera]

Professor Bob Williamson: Data technology on its own can’t do much but in combination with the main problems from agriculture, to energy, to how you manage cities, it can change the world that we live in.

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Adrian Turner: Australia’s future really isn’t predetermined. It’s the choices that we make today and I personally believe the choices we make in the next five years that will really determine where Australia sits through this next generation.

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